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Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2

18474 min

This guide follows Chopin’s Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (1847) in one part.

Recording: Krystian Zimerman (piano) (1978)

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Follow all 6 sections as they play

0:07–3:58

The sighing (A) opens the and later. The flowing section, labelled B on the timeline, follows it and comes back twice, where the often lifts. The slower, songlike contrasting section (C) turns to the major, in D-flat major. Listen for the long sigh at the start and for the way the piece is built from these alternations, with no separate .

  1. A
  2. B

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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